very cool! you can narrow it down to post-1926, as that was the year the Delaware River/Ben Franklin Bridge was opened. And I love the little girl on the ferry at 08:10 who nudges her sister....."Look! He's filming!"
Small note: see how the early Ben Franklin Bridge (called Delaware River Bridge then) has the outer lanes blocked off, they were supposed to be for trolley tracks that were never installed (tracks WERE installed outside the bridge deck, but never used for the trolleys; used for Bridge Line & PATCO later).
People dressed much more formally a century ago. Just like how in the 1920's, men in this film footage are wearing suits and ties to go to the Philadelphia Zoo. Men also wore suits and ties to go to ballgames back then. In sharp contrast in 2019, just before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the entire world, many office workplaces allowed for casual dress at the office.
@@paulluchter137 At the same time, the people of the 1920's were used to wearing these hot and heavy clothes in the summertime. But, in contrast we as people of a century later, would find wearing such hot and heavy clothes in the spring and summer an unbearable torture. Just imagine what if a century from now, with climate change and if laws against public nudity have long since been repealed, people in such a future will then consider our casual summer clothes to have been hot, heavy, and bearable!
Like traveling back in a time machine. It's fascinating seeing familiar structures like Independence Hall and the Ben Franklin Bridge in the world as it existed a century ago. Thanks for sharing!
@@davehorner8126 Wooo! Mine lived on Orthodox St, on the other side of Aramingo from Overington - attended St. John Cantius. Definitely a small world. But now I can't get that *&^# Disney song out of my mind, hah!
Wonderful and fascinating. Sad to see all the lovely trolleys rolling to and fro, all gone now. Also to see the big cats in tiny cages. But awesome to have documentary footage of our great city a century ago!
Our 'great' city?? Ya have ta be from Philly, just to say that. Have you Philly people, looked around recently?? What has happened, to your city?? What have you done, to it🤔????
Fascinating to see travel by rail along the Schuylkill instead of that blasted expressway! Too much footage of the Ben Franklin Bridge (then the Delaware River Bridge), but it was new then (1926). It would have been interesting to see some defunct transit routes, like the Delaware Avenue Elevated and the Fairmount Park trolley but no such luck here.
The title of this video has very little to nothing to do with it’s content. I still love the old videos anyway. I was hoping to see my grandparents, aunts and uncles going to Philly from the Dephi train station, that’s along the perkioman creek. Next stop would be Shwenksville.
I assume that was, the Ben Franklin bridge. But, it looks like there were fewer lanes, back then. Was the bridge width, widened later?? Philadelphia before, 'Filthadelphia'!!! Why?? What's the one element, omitted from this footage😏??? Before someone thinks I am, I'm NOT………
So nice to see people dressed nicely on the streets. No ripped up jeans, no pants hanging below the butt, no baggy sweatpants, or metal snot and booger catchers hanging out of people's noses.
